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TODD B. RICHMOND, visual artist, curator, filmmaker and composer, received his MFA in Fine Arts at Otis College of Art & Design, and California Institute of the Arts/CalArts MFA Graduate Program of Art & Technology; BA from City College of New York in Music & Audio Technology with Film Studies, where he was awarded The ASCAP Foundation Louis Dreyfus Warner/Chappell City College Scholarship honoring George and Ira Gershwin. As a visual artist, he was assistant to renowned artist Richard Artschwager from 1990-95 creating major works for museums and galleries worldwide. Richmond’s paintings and installations have been shown in NYC and Los Angeles in solo and group exhibitions. Read more >
Approaching Distance – solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Todd B. Richmond
on view January 24 through May 20, 2024
1155 Ave of the Americas (6th Ave & 44th St) in Midtown Manhattan, NYC
Approaching Distance, solo exhibition, features the most recent series of paintings by Todd B. Richmond – Manzanita 01 and 02 (2022), and Woodgrain, Fruits and Blossoms 01, 02 , 03 (2023). Both series use vinyl and oil paint, incorporating the tone of the raw linen structure in the palette. Each painting employs sparseness by relationships of objects and in the utilization of unpainted linen. Manzanita 01 and 02 center on a lone manzanita tree surviving the elements, in beautiful yet harsh environment showing past trauma evident through signs of drought and fire. Richmond’s paintings reveal an aura of survival where new growth continues. Woodgrain, Fruits and Blossoms 01, 02 ,03, show a sparse mixture of items, ubiquitous today but had once originated from disparate locations. The central blossom features the bougainvillea, a plant originally from South America and carried around the world by Portuguese explorers and colonists – surrounded by mangoes and Sampaguita (Jasmine) that originate from Southeast Asia and China. The imagery of woodgrain is a nod to Richmond’s work with the late artist Richard Artschwager, whose influence on conceptual and pop art scenes migrated from New York City to the global art world. A migration of images, whether viewing the expansiveness of the terrain in the Manzanita series, or the details in the Woodgrain, Fruits and Blossoms series, the imagery in the large-scale paintings approach a place of contemplation.
TOPAZ ARTS presents Dark Forest – a solo exhibition of large-scale oil paintings and immersive installation by Todd Bradford Richmond
on view March 4 to April 1, 2017
opening reception: Saturday, March 4, 2-6pm | closing reception: Saturday, April 1, 3-6pm
TOPAZ ARTS Visual Arts Program is pleased to present Dark Forest – a solo exhibition of large-scale oil paintings and immersive installation by Todd Bradford Richmond, on view March 4 to April 1, 2017 at TOPAZ ARTS. Richmond’s new works explore the inner voice of uncertainty and the unknown in his solo exhibition Dark Forest – a new series of large-scale oil paintings and immersive installation. Using light as a medium in Laser Forest, blue lasers create an experiential forest of light where viewers can wander through and interact with enigmatic light and atmosphere. Dark Forest (100″ x 160″, oil on canvas, 2016), Painted Forest (100″ x 160″, oil on canvas, 2016) and Negative Forest (100″ x 160″, vinyl, 2016), are a series of large works that survey painting: each adaptations derived from Dark Forest. In Solo Series 1-6 (40” x 40”, oil on linen, 2016), Richmond highlights several sections of the large-scale paintings to duplicate as amplified “details”, forming individual compositions.
Richmond makes paintings, installations, films and music compositions, encompassing an ongoing conversation across mediums and employs diverse materials and modes, exchanging language and concepts between genres. His practice draws upon nature, form, composition and movement. More about the artist >
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Review: “These woods too are lovely, dark and deep”
Mind Field Port by Todd B. Richmond
Installation with 5 paintings (oil on canvas), 3 live trees (avocado, lemon, and Valencia orange), LED grow lights, internet camera; 2014
Created while at CalArts, Mind Field Port is an installation piece that consists of three living trees – avocado, lemon, and Valencia orange – cultivated under LED grow lights. The installation walls and ceiling are constructed of five large oil paintings – three paintings of avocado and Valencia orange orchard paintings – depict an abstracted arboretum, in part, an homage to the once abundant, now vanishing coastal citrus orchards of Ventura County, California. The ceiling painting – a spiral staircase – depicts an experience of the artist’s vertigo, in a broad sense, representing the human condition; and a fifth painting, an open grey slate for the future. A babycam is installed to monitor the trees and their growing fruits. Trees improve the human condition – emitting oxygen, cleaning the air, and in their presence, the trees communicate in calming you. Viewers are invited to enter “Mind Field Port” to experience the trees and the environment, mingle within the room – evocative of the “chill-out rooms” of the 1990s club era.
“Oranges are not the only fruit” – group exhibition on view Dec 11, 2014 to Jan 9, 2015
Bolksy Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Bronya & Andy Galef Center for Fine Arts, 9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
“Drunken Duck in a Kiefer Exhibition” – a collaborative painting by Todd B. Richmond and Manuel Ocampo
Yes, Sir/Ma’am! No, Sir/Ma’am! Right Away, Sir/Ma’am!, a new exhibition by Manuel Ocampo, features large-scale paintings inspired in part by the work of Theodor de Bry (1528–1598), known for his detailed and sometimes fanciful engravings of the native inhabitants of the Americas and their recent contacts with European explorers and colonists. Ocampo intermixes scenes from these works with motifs taken from American political cartoons from the period of the Philippine American War (1899-1902), with their often outrageous ethnic stereotypes. Ocampo has invited other artists to collaborate, incorporating elements ranging from graffiti to video and installation.
Under the Influence: January 5 to February 3, 2013
Opening reception: Sat, Jan 5, 2013, 3-6pm
with live musical performance by The Moto-Wrays
Group exhibition featuring artists:
Chris Freeman (paintings)
Tenjin Ikeda (printmaking)
Todd Richmond (paintings)
Alan Ulrich (sculpture)
TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to present a group show featuring artists Chris Freeman (paintings), Tenjin Ikeda (printmaking), Todd Richmond (paintings), Alan Ulrich (sculpture). Under the Influence is a group exhibition featuring four artists who were assistants of sculptor Richard Artschwager during the 1990s. The artists reunite to present new and recent work, each having been influenced by the experience and the creative process of making many major works for Artschwager. While differing in medium, each artist uses precision to arrive at whimsical forms. Chris Freeman creates large monochrome paintings, deceptively photo-realistic to hypnotic effect. Tenjin Ikeda’s printmaking series “Egungun” combine ancestral forms and urban imagery. Todd Richmond’s vibrant large-scale paintings tap into the realm of allegory. Alan Ulrich crafts distinct sculptures and furniture from materials found from nature and on construction sites. Under the Influence is organized by TOPAZ ARTS Co-Founding Directors Todd Richmond and Paz Tanjuaquio.
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